Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2002-2
MISCELLANEOUS
Network Eastern Europe
The "Network Eastern Europe" held its third workshop on March 21,
2002 at the Berlin European Academy. In December 2000, 24 persons from various
institutions (mainly from non-university institutions in the German speaking
countries) had met in Berlin on the initiative of the Social Science Information
Centre, the German Society for East European Studies, the East-West-Science
Centre, Kassel to discuss the chances of cooperation in the building of an
Eastern Europe specific website of Internet links. At the second meeting in
March 2001 a concrete procedure for a joint Internet offer was developed. The
first website integrating the link-lists of nine institutions went online in
October 2001 under the URL: http://www.Osteuropa-Netzwerk.de.
18 persons participated in the third workshop in March 2002, including five
representatives from institutions that so far had not been involved. Another
seven institutions had signalled interest in participating, but had not been
able to attend the meeting. By March 2002 34 suppliers of Internet information
on Eastern Europe have joined the project or are interested in doing so in the
next future.
Several reports were presented describing the completed tasks, the layout and
structure of the website, the registered visits of the website, the interests of
potential new members of the network. Afterwards, the participants discussed
further steps for the quantitative and qualitative development of the network
and medium-term prospects.
Until the end of 2002 the main focus of the group's work will be on the
integration of link-lists from new participants as well as on public relations.
The group plans to expand the website to an Internet portal which will offer a
central access to information on Eastern Europe in the German speaking
countries. Furthermore, additional information on databases, news and discussion
lists, electronic journals, full text working papers, etc. should be integrated
and an English version of the website should be created.
These new developments can only partially be achieved with the present
capacities. Therefore, an endeavour will be started to acquire additional funds.
In the fall of 2002 a new meeting will take place.
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